| Caption | Â Â Â | Crew members of the first B-29 bomber to land at Yontan Airfield, Okinawa, Japan, 1945 ww2dbase | ||||||
| Source | Â Â Â | ww2dbaseUnited States Marine Corps Claude R. Canup Collection | ||||||
| Identification Code | Â Â Â | COLL/5361 | ||||||
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| Photos on Same Day | Â | 10 Apr 1945 | ||||||
| Photos at Same Place | Â | Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan | ||||||
| Added By | Â | C. Peter Chen | ||||||
| Added Date | Â | 13 Dec 2019 | ||||||
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| Licensing | Â | Public Domain. According to the United States copyright law (United States Code, Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105), in part, "[c]opyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government". | ||||||
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| WW2-Era Place Name | Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan |
| Lat/Long | 26.3936, 127.7467 |
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